Booty Bay

Updated for Patch 8.0.1

Booty Bay is one of the four goblin towns of the Steamwheedle Cartel. It is located on the west coast of The Cape of Stranglethorn, near the south end of the zone.

Facts

0/1000 Exalted is required for Insane in the Membrane and 100 Exalted Reputations. Keeping the reputation is not required for credit for Insane in the Membrane, but is required for 100 Exalted Reputations.

Overview

Booty Bay provides a significant number of quests which decrease your reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers. People who may eventually want to get the Loremaster achievement should complete these quests prior to starting Insane in the Membrane. Pirate grinding is available, even pirates which don’t decrease Bloodsail reputation, though the pirates are fairly widely spaced apart and the grinding is generally better elsewhere.

Quest

Neutral – Exalted

Many quests which grant direct Booty Bay reputation also reduce your reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers. For this reason, you may wish to complete these quests before starting that grind if you intend to keep your Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation afterward. This includes the three OOX quest lines culminating in [Quest #3721], which all should be completed prior to beginning a Bloodsail Buccaneers grind.

The exception are the Brashtide Invasion quests, none of which decrease Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation. This means it is safe for people wanting to obtain Bloodsail Exalted to grind reputation in the Brashtide Invasion event; however, you must get out of the phase in order to have Bruisers to kill to continue your grind to exalted. This means that if you grind here, you will ultimately end up grinding Booty Bay reputation twice. For this reason, while you can get partway to Bloodsail Exalted during this event, it’s not a good idea. People who only want to maintain Honored, or who don’t care about maintaining Bloodsail reputation, can grind the Brashtide Invasion event with no problem.

Pirate Grind

In addition to these mobs, you can also kill pirates for the other goblin towns and collect spillover reputation for Booty Bay.

Northern Stranglethorn

These mobs can be found at Venture Co. Base Camp and at a mine just south of Fort Livingston. Killing Venture Co. mobs grants Booty Bay reputation through 11999/12000 Honored and spillover reputation with the other goblin towns through Exalted. Killing these mobs does not decrease your Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation.